Pleased that this audio piece composed and recorded specifically for installed presentation at Callicoon this Winter should be finding a second showing this time as part of the exciting By the Book group show at the Sean Kelly Gallery.Hafville was recorded using an old ribbon microphone and a contemporay neuman.

For the final event as Whitechapel Gallery Writer in Residence, Caroline Bergvall has collaborated with musician Adam Parkinson to invite producers and DJs to spin, remix and manipulate poetry from Bergvall’s archive of sound poetry, spoken word and performance poetry, as well as her own readings. Booking info below.

My fist solo show in NY in a great Lower East Side gallery, Callicoon Fine Arts. The show is another opportunity for me to think through the Drift material, and explore it through other media: I created 4 large sail-like prints for it as well as a new audiowork, a constellation wall map and drawings. Thomas Köppel went to work on the data structure we used in the live show and we redeveloped it as a generative loop. I hung the show up like a ship at sea. Reviews are coming in. Images and more info on the site.

Trickhouse launches this series of 4 composed audio conversations around various arts practices created by Joan Shuman. She invited me to talk about the interdisciplinary processes of my work and the composition of various recent projects. Beautifully redone.

For those of you in the Baltimore area, I have been invited by Chris Nealon to do a reading next Friday as part of the Dept of English Reading Series.

The annual What_Now festival is a platform for invited artist curators to ask questions of dance, and through dance. This year, the festival re-imagines itself through a public residency and guest lectures.

Thrilled to announce that I am performing at the mythical Khoj International Artist Association in New Delhi for the opening of the group show Word.Sound.Power co-curated with Tate Modern. Indian artist Mithu Sen also performs on the night.

Group show with British and Indian artists focusing on the voice and poetry.

Runs throughout the Summer at the Tate in its Project Space gallery.

The Power Plant is proud to present Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, featuring paintings, sculpture, installation, video and works on paper from the 1960s to the present by over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language.

It a privilege to be able to invite Chilean poet and performer Cecilia Vicuna, performance artist Monica Ross, and poet Sophie Mayer to perform on that night. I am preparing a live set with musician Adam Parkinson.

link to soundfile of the discussion + transcript:

Project Art Writing project is an exciting project involving writers and text-based artists, teachers and curators. This pilot project will take place over a period of 3 years and launches this week with my residency. I have been invited to present my work and thoughts in the form of a Reading Room and an ensuing chapbook, to take part in various discussions, to run workshops with the university as well as with the writers' school in Copenhagen, Forfatterskolen. An international seminar concludes this first part of the Project mid-March.

Corrected_Slogans, special issue published in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's Postscript show.

This piece shows an aspect of my research into Anglo-Saxon poetics as a way of identifying my Nordic roots. It is the introductory piece of my performance DRIFT. Animated graphic text by Ciaran Maher and audiotext.

Features the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. Accompanied by publication by The University of Chicago Press. Cureated by Andrea Andersson & Nora Abram Burnett.

Invited to speak at this year's Festival d' Avignon in this series of dialogues between practitioners and critics based on specific themes and plays shown. With Jean Francois Perrier. Chair: Karelle Menine. Audio file of the conversation.

As part of the last.lost.grü season of this dynamic city theatre, I present a new live piece inspired by Old English signs and texts. The longing at the heart of an ancient North Sea travel poem, The Seafarer, written by an anonymous poet of the 10th century, is the primary source of my text performance and is used also as a reminder of the plight of many of today’s wanderers and exiles across the waters. Commissioned by GRÜ/Transtheatre.

Great city-wide festival with readings taking place in many of Barcelona's wonderful buildings. Now in its 22nd year and going strong, Im delighted to be contributing to it. Festival director, the sound poet: Eduard Escoffet. See link for details, times and locations if youre in the city.

The Ninth Annual Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival will be held April 20-22, 2012 in Bronxville, New York. Entirely student-run, it's the largest free poetry festival in New York State. I read on the Saturday night.

Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us will be curating a 744 hour long radio station called Radio Boredcast. To run for the duration of the fabulous AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible in the North-Eastern part of England. Check the website for full programme.

Somewhere in her programme of DAY 4I have an hour-long playlist of readings and noises by various poets!

1Dj2MANY remixed and resited inside the central elevator/lift of the Theatre du Grütli for their TR4NS festival of live, installed and transitory works.

Writers and writing teachers from a range of Nordic writing schools meet in Denmark to discuss writing pedagogies. I plan a keynote summarising my work with Performance Writing and some of the aims of teaching interdisciplinary writing processes.

Opening tonight!

The first Platforma Festival, takes place in London from 29th November 2011. Bringing together performers, artists and organisations from across the UK, the Festival will be a celebration of the arts by and about refugees and a chance to discuss different aspects of artistic practice. Hosted by Rich Mix and Live Art Development Agency.

1 of 4 speech labs led by Barras & Demierre.

Invited by the collaborative sonic-linguistic voice duo Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre to put my work under their creative scrutiny. A week of shared open workshops, testing ground, closing with public presentations at the Grutli Theatre. This is the first of four text voicing and performance events orchestrated by Barras & Demierre, up until May 2012. Input from a scenografer, sound engineer, art students and others expected. Other invited speechers: Encyclopedie de la Parole, Chris Mann.

Colloquium of papers and readings from 45 participants in various Paris locations. Jacques Roubaud's work on the troubadours and the crucial role on his own work much celebrated and admired. I contribute w a presentation of Meddle English and pieces from my "Shorter Chaucer Tales" in a French translation by Vincent Broqua, Abigail Lang and Anne Portugal.

This website has just been invited to be part of the British Library Web Archive: "The point is to select and archive sites to represent aspects of UK documentary heritage. As a result, they will remain available to researchers in the future. The British Library works closely with leading UK institutions to collect and permanently preserve the UK web".

One can nominate UK sites, please do: there is a need for more art and writing sites/blogs in the archive.

This was one of the most enjoyable experiences I've had with a collection in quite a while. Bergvall, as is implied from the title, is actively engaging or meddling with the ‘living' English language..

by Johnny Hernandez, April 2011, Small Press Distribution, San Francisco

“POETS & CRITICS at PARIS-EST 2011-2013” is a three-year research project on experimental literary criticism funded by Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée. Its aim is to provide a meeting ground for creative and critical discourses and to engage with new modes of writing criticism, in particular "practice-based criticism”. This is a form of critical writing that positions itself as a creative practice.

This weekend is the second roundtable event so far. My work has been invited in as a discussion focus. The weekends take place largely in English.

More info on the blog. Video and audio links of the discussions uploaded as they get edited.

Org. by Nathalie Koble. More details and direct link in due course.

At midday on the 2011 summer solstice, Tuesday, 21 June, the skies above and around Leeds city centre will for 90 minutes play host to a sky banner conceived and delivered in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery as a part of the 20th annual Refugee Week celebrations.

Produced with Writing Encounters, a York-based initiative that supports writers and artists who work with text.

Formal conversation with Stephen Foster, director of the John Hansard Gallery, on the drives and ideas about language, writing and archives underpinning the show "Middling English", commissioned by the gallery last year. Also hosted on iTunes U.

Artist and writer Holly Pester has been going through the sound archives of the Text Festival in Bury (UK) and is re-siting many pieces from it for her own installed piece as part of this year's events. She has reworked the sound and text installation Lidl Suga I created with Ciarán Maher for the first Text festival, 2004. Originally set up for 6 stereo speakers 8 texts 8 fractal compositions 1 song 1 shadowing.

Three pieces from Meddle English are now available at the Academy of American Poets site: "Cat in the Throat" (short version) — "The Not Tale (Funeral)" — and this one in full:

A paradoxical pleasure is both solid nor liquid that can be wet, dry, hard, soft, expansive, changeable. An intricate and hollow polymer network is energy transport at its finest, a compound structure of gas nor bubbles nor fans. Once hardened it can be tough to break. What binds. A gel for instance can envelop like an elastic skin. It can be prodded distorted pushed about, yet will bounce back and hold its shape. Under greater surface tension, it breaks into liquid starts to flow,...

from "About Foam"

5 March 2011
Middling English at the British Library

As part of the British Library's exhibition, Evolving English, I will be presenting an artist talk.

This book gathers a decade of literary work, including the long out-of-print performance text Goan Atom, inspired by the graphic disarticulations of Hans Bellmer’s Doll and Alfred Jarry's Ubu trilogy of plays; the Shorter Chaucer Tales series of contemporary tales exploring social mores in a feisty mix of languages; and recent hybrid prose pieces Cropper, Cat in the Throat, as well as the polemical introductory text: Middling English.

Book design: Kevin Mount. Front cover: from The Myrrour of the Worlde, publ. by Caxton, 1490.

3 days w & around Luce Irigaray - UCL, London -

Panels, performances and exhibitions

This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to generate new theories and practices of subjectivity – ‘sexuate subjects’ – through contemporary poetic and political research in the visual arts, humanities and social sciences, and with reference to Luce Irigaray’s theory of ‘sexuate difference’. By examining these complex expressions of our physical and psychic lives through artefact, body, dialogue, image, installation and word, the event will provide a platform of diverse approaches which can help us build sexuate futures for all. Such approaches aim to contribute towards developing more nuanced understandings of the diversity of global cultures and their academic and public intersections.

Full colour, hardback, 72 pages.

Writer Tony White's presentation as part of the closing discussion event to my show.

As a way of unpacking the idea of Middling, he tackled "fantasies of exclusion in the dominant class", here primarily experienced through language shifts. About his own heavily inflected novel written in Eastendish in the early 90s and a quick clip from LKJ in the 70s as interviewed by the BBC.

Presentation and discussion on the role of writing today between four cross-disciplinary writers: Claire MacDonald, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Tony White and Caroline Bergvall.
Followed by drinks

Free. All welcome. 2-6 pm

2pm - guided tour by caroline bergvall

Middling English traverses language from sci-fi/horror and city lingo to dark humour, unexplained spellings, Chaucerian glossary via bilingual code switchings and texting vernaculars. Each element of text, site, sound and materials is mixed into one complex viewing and listening environment.

A site specific installation, a form of abstract theatre.

A show conceived by C Bergvall in collaboration with the John Hansard Gallery, and w/ DvsN, Adam Parkinson, Zahra Mani, Alex Prokop.

Short video recreating the 4th siting of Say Parsley.

Arnolfini Gallery, May-July 2010.

Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologiesis the theme of the Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network in collaboration with San Diego State University.

1 day-long symposium curated by Cathy Lane.

Taking the lead from the recently published anthology of works Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, this event encompasses performances, talks and conversations by artists and researchers who employ spoken words as their material and inspiration.

Dec 2009SPECIAL FEATURE in HOW 2 online poetics journalNew critical and poetic responses to my work edited into a special feature by Sophie Robinson. Also includes my short essay Pressure Points: on gendered & tactical authorship and an edited correspondence with poet Erin Moure.

Chck out this great mix of More Pets on their latest album.

Just out on Agriculture. Review & playlist here

24-26 October 2009OSLO POESI FESTIVALWith the participation of a great crew of Scandinavian and international poets and an opening night from Charles Bernstein. I have been invited to introduce Bernstein and will also read. Meanwhile my text Cat in the Throat has been translated into Norwegian for the Henie Onstad Art Centre catalogue of their show around vocality and art, To Be Heard Is To Be Seen (August 30th - November 8th 2009.

24-25 September 2009ADFEMPO at CUNY by BELLADONNAAdvancing Feminist Poetics and Activism. A gigantic gathering of openly gendered writers and language-based artists curated by the Belladonna team. If you are in NY: the gathering is Free for All. I am due to take part in the Textual Migrations panel.

11-12 December 2008TRANSLATED ACTS No.1 (video + pics up)Co-organiser of these practice-led seminars using methods and ideas from the visual arts, writing practice and language research as they engage with operations of translation and transmission. This first one at Central St Martins College of Art, London. Pic by Erica Scourti.

7 November 2008Reading at Small Press TrafficReading with C.S. Giscombe at this long-established reading series in San Francisco (USA).
7:30 PM, Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts.

24 October 2008Göteborg Poesi FestivalReading and contribution to the panel on this year's festival theme: "kollektivitet" (on community, spec. literary communities)
+ Friday night at the House of Win Win: AudiaTour group reading co-curated with the festival.

15 October 2008Transmission: HostAnnual artist talk series organised by Sheffield Hallam University with Site Gallery and Showroom Cinema. This year's theme: "The Stranger". This event hosted by Nick Thurston.

11 September 2008Writing EncountersOpening address at this "International symposium featuring interdisciplinary artists and scholars working in the expanded field of writing". Curated by Claire MacDonald, Claire Hind and Simon Zimmerman. York St John University & Thespacebetweenwords.org.

August 2008PlessjřrFull colour bilingual drawings and text project. Published by the Norwegian H-Press, as part of their Miniatyr series.

10 June 2008Alyson SingesLimited ed. chapbook designed and published by Belladonna (NY). Designed by Emily Beall. Released to coincide with the live presentation at DIA Arts Foundation.

10 June 2008Tuesdays on the Terrace, DIA Art FoundationLive presentation: My Chaucer. In collaboration with composer Mario Diaz de León on zither & electric guitar. As part of the DIA at the Hispanic Society of America season. NY 10 June 2008.